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XLVII 



TRAVELLERS from London to Glasgow who choose the 

 who was Midland route (and they cannot choose a 

 st. Enoch ? better) take their departure from a station 

 bearing the name of St. Pancras and arrive at a 

 terminus entitled St. Enoch. Personally I have never 

 been asked any questions about St. Pancras, so I 

 presume the general public is perfectly informed about 

 him that he was a Roman schoolboy of patrician 

 descent, in the reign of Diocletian, that he suffered 

 martyrdom at the age of fourteen, and that three 

 centuries later St. Augustine (who, however fiercely he 

 chastised the Pelagians, was ever tender-hearted towards 

 children) dedicated to St. Pancras the first pagan 

 temple consecrated for Christian worship in England. 



But as regards St. Enoch, the mind of the man in the 

 street seems to be a blank. If I had received a guinea 

 for every time the question which stands at the head 

 of this paper has been put to me, well the Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer would have received a little more on 

 account of income tax. I was not ashamed of not 

 knowing the answer ; I got bored by saying that I did 

 not know, and determined to hunt up what informa- 

 tion could be had. 

 Works on hagiology may be searched in vain for any 



